A Chesapeake & Ohio SD40 leads an eastbound train of West Virginia coal past the depot at Tunnelton, West Virginia on Baltimore & Ohio’s St. Louis line.

After reaching the top of the first grade, N784 is at the top cruising at 30MPH until a few miles ahead they must reduce to 10MPH for the steep descent into Rowelsburg.

Another eastbound coal train rolls by the station at Tunnelton, WV with a C&O SD40 and two B&O SD35's for power.

It is March 20, 1976 and we are at West End, west of Tunnelton, WV at the top of Newburg Grade. It guess the best way to handle this is left to right. On the left is WS Tower, which controlled a... (more)

Four B&O SD35s begin the descent down Newburg Grade as they pass through West End, over the ridge (or through the tunnel) from Tunnelton, WV, on March 20, 1976. They are enroute to Hardman, where... (more)

the M&K helper pushes against 80 Eastbound loads at Kingwood Tunnel near the top of Newburg Grade.

CSX 139 leads empties past the former B&O depot at Tunnelton, WV. The track curving off to the left lead to an interchange with the West Virginia Northern Railroad. The railroad survived as a to... (more)

Downhill on the Mountain Subdivision, westbound CSX Q317 passes the B&O Station and freight house at Tunnelton, nearing the completion of her crew run from Cumberland to Grafton.

Assisting eastbound CSX U813 over the three famous B&O grades from Grafton to Terra Alta, December 2011 built GE ES44AC No. 989 and sister, No. 954 operating as the CSX B236 'M&K Helpers' shove in... (more)

A WVN mine run was climbing out of a mine spur near Howesville, WV on August 18, 1975 with SW1200 No. 52 and NW2 No. 50.

The crew of a mine run were all on the ground looking at the results of a practical joke on the engineer. While working the B&O interchange at Tunnelton, one of the trainmen strapped about 10 tra... (more)

The climb on the WVN to to the B&O interchange at Tunnelton, WV was a brutal one and five or six loaded hoppers was the limit for the two switchers. On May 5, 1978, a mine run was struggling upgr... (more)

Eastbound Q316 passes the old B&O freight house in Tunnelton.

An ex-Conrail SD70MAC brings up the rear of an eastbound coal train as the M&K Helper shoves thru Tunnelton on the B&O's Newberg Grade.

In 2010, it's quite rare to capture a plow in service along CSX in West Virginia mainly due to lack of substantial snowfall, but to our surprise, we're lucky enough to catch a Grafton based B&O Jo... (more)